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Meaning of Briny | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2 Specialized
ˈbɹaɪni

Definitions

The sea.

figuratively, slang

Equivalents

العربية مالح
Български море
Bosanski sos море
Deutsch salzig
Ελληνικά αλμυρός
Suomi suolainen
Français saumâtre
Hrvatski sos море
Magyar sós
Italiano salmastro
Kurdî şoş şoş
Português salgado salobre salobro
Српски sos море
Tagalog matabsing
Türkçe tuzlu

Examples

“[Julian] Barnes wrote “Nothing to Be Frightened Of” when he was 62. He just turned 80. This briny English writer, author of “Flaubert’s Parrot” (1984) and a winner of the Booker Prize, for “The Sense of an Ending” (2011), now has a rare form of blood cancer, treatable but exhausting and uncurable.”
“I thought I would go to the sea and shrink down very tiny / And slide inside the telephone wire that runs under the briny”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
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